Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Feb 2 15:43:04 EST 2013


On 2/2/13 2:07 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> Then again, it might be possible to ship a non-GPL stack that was
> password protected that would be run by the GPL or non-GPL engine,
> although it might be impossible to handle the decryption in a way that
> doesn't make available a key that gives effective access to the
> source--the engine is going to need the key, and if the engine is GPL,
> it's trivial to put a single line in to print the key on receipt . . .

RR has said that no password protection will be available in the GPL 
engine, and it won't be able to open protected stacks.

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